Bicycles, Peanuts and Potty Training

The title of this post would lead you to believe that these are all somehow related, but alas, they are not really.  Except that we have had MAJOR instances in the past two weeks with each, so perhaps they are related, but only to Teddy Roo.

Bicycles:
We are TRYING to teach Teddy to ride his bike, both balance and tricycle.  He is too short (but growing at 37.5 inches and yes, finally 29.5 pounds last checkup with the GI doctor) to use the balance bike properly, so we started with the tricycle.  I must say, the whole using your feet and steering concept is fairly difficult, so we end up doing a lot of pushing and turning for him.  And Teddy, my sweet little boy, was not interested; he had less than zero interest in really learning.  He did (and still does) have a lot of interest in his bike helmet.  We must wear the bike helmet in the oddest of situations (e.g. playing tennis in the basement, riding in the jogging stroller) but not on the tricycle.  Oh no, because that would make too much sense.  Well, wonders never cease, and yesterday Teddy wanted to ride his tricycle beside me on my bicycle.  We went to alley across the way, and HE DID IT!  He pedaled and steered himself for a few feet!  (I know what you are thinking, but listen folks, I celebrate the small victories.)

Peanuts:
We are blessed to have a child not allergic to peanuts, so he eats them fairly regularly, because I will literally feed him anything he is willing to eat.  (Again, it is unknown to me how I managed to have a relatively tall and skinny child, but its true.  He only recently tripled his birth weight, a feat most kids manage by 1, only took him 33 months, but who is counting.)  So on a recent stroller ride (with helmet) he somehow managed to lodge a peanut in his nose.  You read that right, he stuck a peanut up his nose.  The first thing that came to my mind was that I thought maybe the ER would give us some sort of discount for recent trips.  Then Adrian just pushed it down his nose from the outside and made Teddy sneeze and there flew the peanut.  Ahh, disaster adverted.

Potty Training:
Lord help me, but I will take a newborn over this potty training.  It is more frustrating, definitely more messy and certainly more time consuming that having a newborn.  I mean, you cannot go anywhere without all the things a newborn needs (several changes of clothes, diapers, wipes, etc) and even worse it takes even longer to do anything.  Imagine my panic when Teddy (for once) announces he needs the potty, only we are in the car, trapped in traffic and I have no where to get him in time.  Seriously, it's been a trying time (I know, first world problem, but people I gotta have something to complain about and I know I am blessed and appreciate it every.single.day).  Lucky for me, Teddy seems to be getting much better and I am hopeful that we will master this beast (and seriously, thank the good Lord for his preschool and his babysitter Carrie because they bear the brunt of this) and he will be a BIG KID.  I will say he finds it all fascinating in true boy tradition and likes to have the iPad with him at the potty.  Boys.....raising boys....it's not for the faint of heart.